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Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1767) 
AphiaID: 110377

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echiura (Phylum) > Echiuroidea (Class) > Echiurida (Order) > Echiuridae (Family) > Echiurinae (Subfamily) > Echiurus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Echiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831
Synonymised
taxa
  Echiurus chrysacanthophorus (synonym)
Lumbricus echiurus Pallas, 1767 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1774) Spicilegia zoologica. Berlin (1767-1780), vol.1, fasc. 1-4 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Echiura, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 178 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Wesenberg-Lund, E. (1933). The collections of gephyreans in the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 9(6): 1-16 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura. [details]

additional source: Cutler, E. (2009). Sipuncula, Echiura. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish almindelig tungeorm  [details]
Dutch zandworm  [details]
All child
taxa

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 Subspecies Echiurus echiurus alascanus Fisher, 1946
Subspecies Echiurus echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1767)
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
English Channel [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of France [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echiura Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: (Pallas, 1766) [details]

Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]

Distribution: The species is widely distributed in the arctic both in the Northern part of the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific. It is found as far south as at 45,0 N. Lat. it is especiallly common in Danish waters, the North sea, and is reported from the Channel both from England, Belgium and France; from the Atlantic coast of France it is only reported once from Charente- Inférieure. [details]

Habitat: circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: shelf [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110377
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-04 16:37:03Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-08 08:28:57Z  checked  Murina, Galina Vansetti
  
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  Citation: Murina, G. (2013). Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110377 on 2013-06-20
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